Ramblings by K6RJ

National Public Radio (NPR) had an interesting item a couple of days ago about the growth of amateur radio in spite of the current age of such social networking technologies like Facebook, Myspace,Twitter,cell phones and more. In fact, it states that the number of ham licensees in the US has increased to nearly 700,000, up 60% since 1981.

Should we really be surprised by this?  If you think about it, wasn’t ham radio is one of the first social networking technologies?  It just makes sense that interest in ham radio would rise as interest in social networking rises.   So, who says ham radio is dying?  You can read the whole article here.